Spec-Driven Development: The Rise of Builder PMs
Code got cheap. Clarity hasn't. AI coding agents can now build almost anything you describe. The old bottle neck of writing code is gone. The new one is saying what to build clearly enough that an agent builds the right thing.
This is the shift behind spec-driven development. Instead of prompting an agent and hoping, teams write a spec first: the behavior, the constraints, and what "good" looks like. The agent builds against it. In a world of disposable code, a long-lived spec becomes the artifact that matters most.
Product managers have always turned ambiguity into something a team can ship. The PRD is used to align people. The spec aligns people and agents. This is the rise of the Builder PM: a product leader whose judgment is precise enough to direct a fleet of agents.
Join ProductTank SF and Workato for a panel on spec-driven development and how it works inside real teams.
Key Takeaways
How spec-driven development works
Why the PM role changes when clarity is scarcer than code
PRD → Spec and what that means for how you write requirements
Panelist Bios
Nick Robin is Senior Director of Product at Vapi, where he builds the platform that enterprises and developers use to create the best voice AI agents. He previously led product teams at Braze.
Swetha Sridharan is a Principal Product Manager at Workato, the automation and integration platform. She builds AI-driven products that orchestrate work across an organization's apps, data, and agents.
Tom Alterman is a Principal Product Manager at GoodLeap and founder of Tomek.io, where he takes AI product ideas from concept to shipped product. He has led product teams at Notable, Asana, PlanGrid, and Autodesk.
Albert Collell is a Senior AI Product Leader at Qurrent and teaches product management at Stanford. He uses AI to raise decision quality and turn complexity into clarity at scale.
Special Thanks to our Generous Sponsor
Workato: the AI-powered automation and integration platform that lets teams orchestrate work across their apps, data, and agents. Thank you to Workato for hosting us and providing food and drinks.
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